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The unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak has paralyzed overseas trips to many different nations.
In a bid to get some movement going again, some of South Korea's largest companies are pushing to dispatch employees to overseas production lines.
Kim Jae-hee reports.
South Korean companies are using chartered planes to send their employees on business trips in other countries.
The move comes due to the coronavirus pandemic causing many countries to implement entry bans.
Around two hundred Samsung Electronics engineers and subcontractors have been sent to China to expand its flash memory chip plant in China.
Samsung said that its workers departed for Xi'an , Shaanxi Province from Incheon International Airport on Wednesday and will adhere to regional quarantine policies upon arrival.
The workers will be deployed after 14 days of quarantine.
LG also said it has sent engineers to Vietnam to continue production at manufacturing plants there.
"LG Electronics, LG Display, and their partner companies ran chartered flights to Vietnam on Thursday...after agreeing a business trip for around 230 executives with the Vietnamese government."
This is the second time LG Electronics has sent workers to Vietnam by chartered jet.
Unlike the previous flight on March 30th, which sent 240 workers who were exempt from Vietnam's quarantine policy, those sent this time will be quarantined for 14 days before being dispatched.
SK Innovation also flew a chartered plane earlier this month, and sent some three hundred personnel to its electric vehicle battery plant in Hungary.
Kim Jae-hee, Arirang News.